Friday 6 September 2024

Cracks up

 

The Prolific Magical Egg (1902)


Directed by Georges Melies this is an early short film. An egg grows and transforms into a head.


We start off with some nice slight of hand stuff but Melies over shoots with the egg turning into the head which is just not even remotely believable. The technology was not good enough for what Melies wanted to achieve here. A bit of a let down.


2/5

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